Clatter vs Echo - What's the difference?
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A rattling noise.
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Noisy talk or chatter.
To cause to make a rattling sound.
* (Jonathan Swift)
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* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
To make a rattling noise.
To chatter noisily or rapidly.
* Spenser
(Northern English) To hit; to smack.
* 1988 , , Friday Night Live
* 2010 , Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
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* Fuller
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
(of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off of a surface and return.
(by extension) To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo.
* (John Dryden)
* Keble
(by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).
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Clatter is a related term of echo.
As nouns the difference between clatter and echo
is that clatter is a rattling noise while echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer).As a verb clatter
is to cause to make a rattling sound.clatter
English
Noun
(en noun)The Dust of Conflict, chapter=7
citation, passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
Synonyms
* commotion * racketVerb
(en verb)- You clatter still your brazen kettle.
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- When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
- I see thou dost but clatter .
- "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”
- “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.
Derived terms
* clatterer * clatteringly * clatteryecho
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
- The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
- Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
- Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
Derived terms
* echoacousia * echo boomer * echocardiogram, echocardiography * echogenic, echogenicity * echogram * echolalia * echo organ * echopathy * echophonocardiography, echophony * echoplex * echo-ranging * echo sounder * echo stop * echotexture * hypoechoicVerb
(es)- Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
- The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.
Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}